Harvard's e-mail scandal raises questions of workplace privacy

Many Harvard faculty members have expressed dismay since learning that the university secretly searched the e-mail accounts of 16 deans, but court cases involving workplace privacy indicate that Harvard probably didn't do anything illegal, L.V. Anderson writes. Even if employees can show that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their work e-mail accounts, employers can still monitor workers' e-mails if they have a good reason to do so, Anderson writes.